Part 1

Question 1

What animal is representative of the Democratic National Party?

Answer 1

donkey

Question 2

Who was the first American to step on the moon?

Answer 2

Neil Armstrong

Question 3

What is the term given to the root of a hair?

Answer 3

follicle

Question 4

On what continent would we find the Danube River?

Answer 4

Europe

Question 5

What is the name given to the official residence of the Queen of England?

Answer 5

Buckingham Palace

Question 6

What is the tallest land animal?

Answer 6

giraffe

Question 7

What is the complementary color for orange?

Answer 7

blue

Question 8

What is the complementary color for yellow?

Answer 8

purple

Question 9

What is the complementary color for red?

Answer 9

green

Question 10

What color is indigo?

Answer 10

blue

Question 11

What gas is 2nd on the Periodic Table and is used to fill balloons?

Answer 11

helium

Question 12

What do we call the biographical notice of the death of a person, usually posted in a newspaper?

Answer 12

obituary

Question 13

An epicenter is part of what natural phenomenon?

Answer 13

earthquake

Question 14

What does a decibel measure?

Answer 14

sound

Question 15

What does the abbreviation TKO stand for?

Answer 15

technical knockout (a boxing term)

Question 16

What does the idiom “seeing red” mean?

Answer 16

You are angry or mad.

Question 17

Where are NEW blood cells formed in the human body?

Answer 17

the spleen

Question 18

V, L, and M are a type of numbers called…

Answer 18

Roman numerals

Question 19

What type of numbers are used in everyday life?

Answer 19

Arabic numerals

Question 20

What kind of skeleton do we find on crustaceans such as lobsters?

Answer 20

exoskeleton

Question 21

What is the only state in the U.S. that begins with the letter P?

Answer 21

Pennsylvania

Question 22

In what state would we find the Great Salt Lake?

Answer 22

Utah

Question 23

What country was ruled by King Tut?

Answer 23

Egypt

Question 24

What major league baseball team has its home in Chicago, Illinois?

Answer 24

White Sox

Question 25

Read this sentence: Cassidy gave all her Pokemon cards to Holliman. What word is the object of a preposition?

Answer 25

Holliman

Question 26

Read this sentence: The answer to the test questions was quickly found by Anna. What word in the sentence is an adverb?

Answer 26

quickly

Question 27

What author wrote the juvenile fiction novel Fifteen?

Answer 27

Beverly Cleary

Question 28

Read this sentence: Seth's dog Toby is a fearless hunter of field mice. Which word contains a suffix?

Answer 28

fearless

Question 29

The Compromise of 1850 prevented a civil war between the southern slave states and the northern Free states that rose during the Mexican-American War. What President signed the Compromise of 1850 into law?

Answer 29

Millard Fillmore

Question 30

Pascagoula, Crenshaw, and Hushpuckena are all cities in what state?

Answer 30

Mississippi